heck you guys were lucky! my spring breaks consisted of 40 hour days at the plant nursery cleaning and raking and working my *** off for a 1.00 sprite out of the vending machine a day. and that was only 10-15 years ago and it didn't matter the weather!~

I was in college mid 70's. Going to Padre for Spring Break was always a crap shoot weather wise - some years a sunburn, some years not a bikini in sight. I made that long drive from Stillwater one time. After that a group of us went camping/fishing in the Ozarks every Spring break.

We went to Ft. Lauderdale for Spring Break one year in college (unbelievable what went on there) and it was the first week of April - I remember that we watched the NCAA Championship game (Phi Slama Jama vs. NC State) the night before leaving and that was April 4, 1983.

We stayed a ways off the main drag, but the hotels at the beach (multi-story hotels) all would rip out the carpeting for the month or so of college spring break, then re-install afterwards. That was less trouble than trying to get all the vomit, alcohol, etc. out of the carpets.
Culture was 'a little different' then - the tobacco companies had good-looking gals walking the boardwalk handing out free cigarettes to any/everyone.

We didn't have spring break. We got Good Friday off but I am an old er more experienced fart.

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Exactly!

Yep, Good Friday and Monday after Easter. Dat was it and it was called Easter break. Back then it was not considered racists and you were not offending anyone by acknowledging your Christian beliefs. We said prayer and the pledge of allegiance to the flag every morning.

Yeah, we got a week off between the Winter and Spring quarters at Louisiana Tech. I always worked between quarters (as well as during the quarters). The only time I remember not working is when I was sick.

Never had any such thing in HS. I would have had to work then to (and did on weekends and summers).

heck you guys were lucky! my spring breaks consisted of 40 hour days at the plant nursery cleaning and raking and working my *** off for a 1.00 sprite out of the vending machine a day. and that was only 10-15 years ago and it didn't matter the weather!~

I thought it was a bit later in March when I was a kid. Seems we had warmer weather when we went to Port A. It is a beautiful My College kids went to Galveston for a few days. I doubt they will get in the water. Too cold.

March 10, 1984. Louie’s Backyard. South Padre Island. Met good looking blonde from UT. 38 years later we are on spring break with 2 of 3 kids, skiing! Same time frame.

I have a friend Larry, he worked for the State and he would take a 2 week vacation and go to S Padre and work at Louis's backyard. He knew the owner and he would make a ton of money. He was there when you were.

We went to Ft. Lauderdale for Spring Break one year in college (unbelievable what went on there) and it was the first week of April - I remember that we watched the NCAA Championship game (Phi Slama Jama vs. NC State) the night before leaving and that was April 4, 1983.

We stayed a ways off the main drag, but the hotels at the beach (multi-story hotels) all would rip out the carpeting for the month or so of college spring break, then re-install afterwards. That was less trouble than trying to get all the vomit, alcohol, etc. out of the carpets.
Culture was 'a little different' then - the tobacco companies had good-looking gals walking the boardwalk handing out free cigarettes to any/everyone.

They've scheduled a custom knife show in ft Lauderdale the last two years during spring break. Last year they first day was elbow to elbow people on beach the next two days were cold. We will see how this weekend is.

heck you guys were lucky! my spring breaks consisted of 40 hour days at the plant nursery cleaning and raking and working my *** off for a 1.00 sprite out of the vending machine a day. and that was only 10-15 years ago and it didn't matter the weather!~

Barefooted!

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Yep, Good Friday and Monday after Easter. Dat was it and it was called Easter break. Back then it was not considered racists and you were not offending anyone by acknowledging your Christian beliefs. We said prayer and the pledge of allegiance to the flag every morning.

This ^^^^^^.

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Running with the devil a little Van Halen

Google is your friend huh? I'm not sure your old enough for the Van Halen
days.

My dad used to take the week off work, and we fished our asses off. Couple days at Ray Bob, Couple days at Fork, maybe some stripers at PK, or Whitney, mixed in. We had a blast and caught A LOT of big bass. I remember it was always cold part of the week. Went skiing a couple times in high school with the "church"group....that was always.....interestin.

When I got out of high school, spring break changed a little. I'm sure glad everyone didn't have a camera in their pocket back then...

Spring Break 1975 Fort Lauderdale drove from Dallas 21 hours in a Triumph TR6 with Super Tramp on the 8 track. Great times. Came home sun burnt hung over and in love with a school teacher from New York. LOL

Like most have said here...My Spring Break consisted of working extra hours at my part-time job to make sure I had enough money to get through the semester. But I will admit, I'm getting to "live" it vicariously through my college senior boys who are down in Cabo San Lucas now as we speak. Man, the things we do for our kids , huh? And...I've asked them NOT to send Dad any pics !

Stevie Ray Vaughn in Padre was about as good as it gets. Just wish I remembered more of it.

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Ha! You remember that? I thought I was drunk! Maybe I was, just a little.
I remember SRV joining The Fabulous Thunderbirds on stage to play Tuff Enough/Don't Mess With Texas. He and Jimmy jammin side by side.
Pretty cool memories!

Ha! You remember that? I thought I was drunk! Maybe I was, just a little.
I remember SRV joining The Fabulous Thunderbirds on stage to play Tuff Enough/Don't Mess With Texas. He and Jimmy jammin side by side.
Pretty cool memories!

I missed that part I was driving my wasted buddy to a dentist in Mexico, because he tried opening a beer bottle with his teeth and broke one off @ the gum line

1986 the drinking age changed to 21 and mexico was closed to American kids because some guy got kid napped /killed by devil worshipers in matamoras
And Jefferson star ship headed up the concert
The next year we were in cozamel

I missed that part I was driving my wasted buddy to a dentist in Mexico, because he tried opening a beer bottle with his teeth and broke one off @ the gum line

1986 the drinking age changed to 21 and mexico was closed to American kids because some guy got kid napped /killed by devil worshipers in matamoras
And Jefferson star ship headed up the concert
The next year we were in cozamel

That guy was from Santa Fe and lived down the road from my girlfriend , THE WACKO FROM WACO. Somehow I always ended up with the nut jobs.
No you Linda if you see this,